I would agree with every one you have listed great cinema, but would also throw in Jaws (70s i know 
), Escape from new york and Predator
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I wasn’t that taken with the original - the effects were nice. The second one I saw a few weeks back - pretty average.
watching - Reacher season 3
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I’ve only watched E1, but 2 thumbs up so far. A documentary style that while narrated by Ethan Hawke, often lets the images and vets on both sides tell their story.
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Apple’s Vietnam was great, especially the (AI?) cleanup of much of the archival content. I prefer Ken Burns’ Doc. But there us one episode of this newer show that blew me away. It followed two Marines who finished their infantry war on completely different tracks: one returned as a Marine helicopter pilot and the other joined Jane Fonda’s anti-war movement. What a great, enlightening story those two had to tell.
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In episode 1, the tunnel rat story, was chilling. If anyone can claim the need to carry their bollocks around in a wheelbarrow, certainly those guys can.
There’s another group of veterans, who have a slightly different take on Ms. Fonda. @Phantom13 has a connection with an F-4 WSO who spent some time at the Hanoi Hilton courtesy of a MiG-21. He’s not a big fan.
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There are good reasons not to be a fan. But if you haven’t seen the episode yet, that’s the whole point. The one Marine buddy who stayed clearly is no fan. But the two are still buddies. THAT is the point.
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Another one that slipped through the cracks. Two more episodes of Zero Day to go and then I can get a start on that.
After the first Movie, I read One Shot and a few of the other books, but gave up after a few because they all started to be variations on a theme. Reacher cracks some skulls, flashbacks to when he was a kid and/or MP, sleeps with the ‘girl’, solves the case and goes back to being a drifter…
One of the books I read was Killing Floor, because that was the first, haven’t read the book that Season 2 was based on but coincidentally I have read Persuader, which this season is based on and I just discovered now when looked this up.
I actually liked Season 1 better than the book. The whole counterfeiting scheme was so much better than the simplicity of it in the book.
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I am an episode ahead of you. It is my kind of TV - just when I think I have it sussed, it throws me another curve ball.
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My children introduced me to a lot of absolutely smashing stuff.
From “simple” cartoons like Gravity Falls, Owl House, and Nimona to more intense one like Paradise.
Holy carp.
Especially Paradise is so gripping! 
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This is pretty gripping, at least to me. Mostly in Japanese, some in English. I’m about 7 episodes in and am really enjoying it.
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The Reacher films were boring and unremarkable except that Tom Cruise was in them.
The series is a great show, I’ve watched every season as it’s aired and not been let down yet.
I’ve never bothered reading the books, but I get a similar Ian Fleming vibe here–the works were a great inspiration for the adaptations, but surpassed those writings because the original author’s reach exceeded his grasp often.
I’m assuming you use subtitles? The only Japanese language stuff I’ve ever watched are Kurosawa movies.
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So…about the Vietnam doc on Apple+. All my life I’ve watched the scenes of Hueys and Chinooks being shoved off the side of the USS Midway. And all this time I thought I knew why: to clear the deck for more helicopters. That is not why*. It’s the most incredible story I thought I knew but never knew. Larry Chambers was one hell of a hero. I fear his story has been, or soon will be, swiped from official Navy websites for (reasons). If you don’t know the story, watch that final episode. Incredible!
*Chances are, I am unique among this group in my ignorance of this story. But please don’t assume that’s the case and retell it here. Pretend that there are others and make ‘em watch!
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I have been watching The Day of the Jackal the past couple of nights. So far I’m impressed.
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I really liked it. Eddie Redmayne’s portrayal of the Jackal was outstanding. I loathed the people who had hired him and actually wanted this Techbro to survive
But, it had me sympathising more with the assassin than the Secret Intelligence Service agent tracking him down. Although It was written to set it up this way they managed to pull it off IMHO because of Redmayne. I can’t think of many actors who could have played that character as the anti-hero quite so well.
Edit: There are many fantastic performances in this show. Charles Dance and Lashana Lynch also put in particularly noteworthy performances, but Redmayne steals the show for me.
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I watched the first few episodes of the anime called “Frieren - Beyond Journey’s End”.
I admit I originally did so just for fun to kinda troll my wife, because the show uses German names for the places and characters and some of them (including the main character’s) are accidentally hilarious.
But we noticed that we actually enjoy the atmosphere of this anime. Very different to anything I had seen before.
Sadly the only way to watch it is Netflix or Crunchyroll and I kinda hate those subscriptions, and the German BluRay set is ridiculously expensive (90€ for 16 episodes of 25min each) so I won’t watch more for now. English would be cheaper but my wife’s English isn’t good enough. We don’t want to watch it in Japanese with subtitles either. We’ll wait for a better offer of the German version.
We bought the first few books of the manga though, and while I admit that it took me some time to adjust since I haven’t read a manga in two decades (right to left and so on), it is a really a fun read. It is a slow paced and often melancholic story, but I like it a lot so far.
(And the German names are still hilarious).
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I saw The Gallant Hours a few weeks ago. I thought it was a reasonable portrayal of what I have read over the years about Halsey’s service during WW2.
The Gallant Hours
The Gallant Hours
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053849/
The Gallant Hours (1960) ORIGINAL TRAILER
The Gallant Hours (1960) ORIGINAL TRAILER
https://youtu.be/SqDKZzMtNNU
Wheels
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It may of been mentioned before but I quite enjoyed Slow Horses Apple TV four seasons.
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